On 6/29/06, Alan G Isaac <aisaac at american.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Travis Oliphant apparently wrote:
> > Please make any comments or voice major concerns
>> A rather minor issue, but I would just like to make sure
> that a policy decision was made not to move to a float
> default for identity(), ones(), zeros(), and empty().
> (I leave aside arange().)
>> I see the argument for a change to be 3-fold:
> 1. It is easier to introduce people to numpy if
> default data types are all float. (I teach,
> and I want my students to use numpy.)
> 2. It is a better match to languages from which
> users are likely to migrate (e.g., GAUSS or
> Matlab).
> 3. In the uses I am most familiar with, float is
> the most frequently desired data type. (I guess
> this may be field specific, especially for empty().)
So far the vote is 8 for float, 1 for int.